more urgent concerns in the frantic, urgent is the new normal. it shouldn't. the stakes couldn't be hire. 5g promises to make current speeds look like dial up, powering everything from your smartphone to your self-driving car. this massive upgrade comes with a lot of international intrigue. featuring the usual suspects, trump, xi, kim jong un, whoever controls 5g ends up controlling the world. china seems to be in poll position, and the latest sign of huawei's conflicts with rule of law came out monday when the "washington post" reported it's helping north korea with its own network. that's a violation of sanctions. the company kept referring to north korea as a9 in internal documents. huawei denies all of this. but if they did it, it would be the latest in a string of bad acts. that's why the trump administration blacklisted the firm in may from forbidding u.s. companies from working with it,